Another pre-release tweak!
Cathedral Patch Notes — October 30, 2019
Aggregated from Steam, cross-tracked with Battle.net coverage on GamePatchNote.
We've had the issue of some players not being able to start the game without running it in admin mode.
Sadly, it's been few enough to make this a hard bug for us to track down. It turns out that we had an issue where if your Windows username contained special characters, it would read those characters wrong, and instead of saving to your user profile folder, it would create a new folder with the "wrong" characters in C:\Users.
The last fix handles this by simply handling Unicode/UTF-16 on Windows correctly (and Windows is the only affected platform).
Are there any side-effects to this patch?
For most players - no. If you've never had any issues with this before, it should be business as usual.
If you're one of the people who have had this issue, then yes - if you just start up the game, you might notice that your saves are gone (don't worry - they're not!). This is an unfortunate side effect of us starting to look for saves in the correct place.
I had this issue, and now my saves aren't visible. How do I get them back?
To fix it - make sure the game starts up (you can exit out right away. It just needs to start to create the necessary folders). After that, go to C:\Users. You will most likely see a folder that doesn't belong (which would be something close to your name, but with any special character replaced by something semi-unreadable). Inside this folder, there's a folder structure Appdata\Roaming\DBornInteractive\Cathedral, which contains all settings and saves. Copy these to your ACTUAL user profile folder, into the same folder structure (so, into C:\Users\\Appdata\Roaming\DBornInteractive\Cathedral).
We realize this isn't optimal, and we're very sorry for the inconvenience. If you're having issues, feel free to contact us on [email protected], and we'll help you get it fixed.